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Trump's likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he'd run the agency


Brendan Carr wants to preserve data caps, punish NBC, and give money to SpaceX.

The Republican who is likely to lead the Federal Communications Commission under President-elect Donald Trump detailed how he would run the agency when he wrote a chapter for the conservative Heritage Foundation's Project 2025. Carr, a longtime opponent of net neutrality rules and other broadband regulations, has also made his views clear numerous times when opposing rulemakings initiated by the current Democratic majority. Carr was a vocal opponent of the FCC decision to deny SpaceX's application for $886 million in government funding and claimed that "President Biden gave federal agencies a greenlight" to punish Musk after he bought Twitter.

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